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CVE-2018-17846

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-17846 describes an infinite loop vulnerability in the Go html package (x/net/html) affecting Fedora and Go products. This flaw occurs when parsing a malformed HTML structure involving nested table, math, and select tags, due to non-compliant handling of inSelectIM and inSelectInTableIM states. Rated 7.5 HIGH (CVSSv3.1), it is a network-exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability requiring no user interaction, with a high impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2018-09-25CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:golang:net:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
28CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:28:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
29CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0262 is in the 71st percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: golang.org/x/netFixed in: 0.0.0-20190125091013-d26f9f9a57f3
github_advisoryvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) Operational ToolsFixed in: golang-googlecode-net
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 3Fixed in: grafana

Vendor Advisories (2)

goGHSA-vfw5-hrgq-h5wfhigh

x/net/html Vulnerable to DoS During HTML Parsing

Sep 25, 2023
redhatCVE-2018-17846Moderate

golang-org-x-net-html: infinite loop during html.Parse() via inSelectIM and inSelectInTableIM

Oct 1, 2018

References

github.com / golang/go/issues/27842
Vendor Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LREEWY6KNLHRWFZ7OT4HVLMVVCGGUHON
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UKRCI7WIOCOCD3H7NXWRGIRABTQOZOBK